Charity Mentors Kent and Medway

Charity Mentors Kent and Medway’s offers free mentoring for charity leaders, their chairs and senior board members across Kent and Medway.

The mentors are experienced leaders of charities, social enterprises and other community organisations. They all volunteer their time to provide mentoring sessions to help other charity CEOs, managers and/or trustees with strategic issues. They have been carefully selected to ensure that that they add value to you, the mentee, and ultimately to your organisation.

They work with anyone who has a leadership role within a charity, community group or not-for-profit social enterprise, including trustees, managers and directors.  The mentors can focus on a specific issue or on general strategic direction and will help a mentee to think through the issues and help them to come to their own solutions and conclusions.

Their vision is for there to be vibrant charities and not-for-profit social organisations throughout Kent and Medway, producing excellent outcomes led by confident leaders with clear strategic purpose. Their mission is to provide these leaders with free, high-quality mentoring and support for strategic thinking, so that they are empowered to improve the resilience, efficiency and social impact of their organisations.

Mentoring projects are:

• Short-term typically lasting up to 6 months
• Specific with clear goals and outcomes
• Both face to face and online meetings

The mentoring process will:

• Identify issues that need addressing
• Agree defined objectives for the mentoring period
• Encourage lateral thinking and adoption of new ideas and systems
• Review progress and results

Common mentoring projects include:

• Supporting and encouraging managers in clarifying options and priorities.
• Decisions about the development and direction of the organisation.
• Managing change and how to articulate it.
• Decisions concerning structure and staffing.
• Exploring how an organisation might move to the “next step” in terms of growth and sustainability.
• Positioning and purpose of an organisation to enable strategic focus.
• Identifying resource requirements
• Working through trustees and governance issues.
• Help with being new in role as a manager or CEO

Previous clients include Future Foundry, Hypo Hounds, Sateda, Ideas Test, Brogdale CIC, 21 Together, Rainbow Centre Folkestone, Animate Arts Company, Friends of Wisdom Hospice, and Maidstone Community Support Centre.

If you would like a Mentor or would like to volunteer as a Mentor, email contact@charitymentorskent.org or visit http://www.charitymentorskent.org